Comments on: All because of a failure of nerve https://www.isegoria.net/2017/06/all-because-of-a-failure-of-nerve/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Ross https://www.isegoria.net/2017/06/all-because-of-a-failure-of-nerve/comment-page-1/#comment-2559992 Ross Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:28:32 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42001#comment-2559992 Paraphrasing Orwell, “some of the animals are less equal than others”

]]> By: Watcher https://www.isegoria.net/2017/06/all-because-of-a-failure-of-nerve/comment-page-1/#comment-2559989 Watcher Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:55:36 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42001#comment-2559989 For a short time I did some part-time teaching (admittedly 16 and 17 year olds at a college) and they were a mixed bunch. On one occasion I was talking to a class and asked what they would do if they couldn’t get a job in their preferred area of work (designing video games was a job they all thought would pay £30,000 per annum starting and not require them to be at work much)

They didn’t know what else they might do, but when I suggested they might want to think about teaching they all burst out laughing. “We wouldn’t want to teach people like us,” one of them said, and the rest of the class nodded.

I have to admit, I knew exactly how they felt.

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